da

See also: Appendix:Variations of "da"

Translingual

Symbol

da

1. Template:metrology Symbol for the prefix deca-, indicating to the tenth power.

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English

Pronunciation

• (UK, Article) , Template:SAMPA
• (UK, Noun) , Template:SAMPA

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of (deprecated template usage) dad

Noun

da (plural das)

1. Template:Ireland Father.
   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 55:

     Oh where is yer da son? The man said it to me and was grumpy. Is yer da here?

Synonyms

• pa, Pa
• daddy

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Russian (deprecated template usage) да (da).

Adverb

da (not comparable)

1. “yes”, in Russian.

Antonyms

• nyet

Noun

da (plural das)

1. A Russian yes; an affirmative response.

Etymology 3

Representing pronunciation of (deprecated template usage) the in informal speech.

Article

da

1. .

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see [[Citations:da#|Citations:da]].

Anagrams

• ad , ad., AD

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Basque

Verb

da

1. is

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Breton

Etymology 1

From Template:proto.

Preposition

da (requires soft mutation)

1. to

   An den a zo aet da Vreizh. — The man went to Brittany.

Inflection

singular		plural
1	din	1	dimp
2	dit	2	deoc'h
3 m	dezhañ	3	dezho
3 f	dezhi
imp.	deor

Etymology 2

From Template:proto.

Pronoun

da (requires soft mutation)

1. your (singular)

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Danish

Adverb

da

1. surely
2. then

Conjunction

da

1. when

   Da jeg var ung, fandtes der ikke computere.

   When I was young, there were no computers.

2. as, at the same time as

   Da jeg kom, gik hun.

   As I arrived, she left.

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Dena'ina

Conjunction

da

1. when
2. if

Adverb

da

1. there

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Esperanto

Preposition

da

1. Of (used instead of de with quantities, to emphasize the quantity rather than the thing quantified, or to indicate the unity of a shape and its material, a container and its contents, or a group and its members)

   glaso da vino — a glass of wine

   kilogramo da viando — a kilogram of meat

   grupo da homoj — a group of people

   kvar metroj da ĉi tiu ŝtofo kostas naŭ frankojn — four meters of this cloth costs nine francs

   Li ligis la tri florojn en bukedon, kaj prezentis al ŝi tiun bukedon da floroj — He tied the three flowers into a bouquet, and presented her with this bouquet of flowers

   listo da kandidatoj — a list of candidates (of their names: cf. listo da kondiĉoj de la kandidatoj 'a list of conditions from the candidates')

   skatolo da ĉokolado – a box of chocolates (a boxful of chocolate: cf. skatolo de ĉokolado 'a chocolate box' (the box itself, made for chocolates, but now perhaps used to store paper clips), and skatolo el ĉokolado 'a box (made) of chocolate')

   la spektaklo daŭris duonon da horo — the show lasted half an hour (cf. tri estas duono de ses 'three is half of six')

   Damasko [...] estos amaso da ruinaĵoj — Damascus will be a mass of ruins

   tuto da kondiĉoj kaj cirkonstancoj, en kiuj iu troviĝas — all of the conditions and circumstances in which we find ourselves

   sistemo da sonoj por la esprimado de pensoj — a system of sounds for the expression of thought

   ho, se mia kapo havus sufiĉe da akvo kaj miaj okuloj estus fonto da larmoj! — oh, if my head had enough water, and my eyes were a spring of tears! (cf. fonto de akvo 'a spring of water', which indicates the kind of spring rather than a unity of eyes and tears)

Usage notes

Unlike most prepositions, da cannot occur after a verb. It necessarily links two nouns.

The article la does not occur after the preposition da, and this is often mistakenly understood to mean that the quantity introduced by da must be indefinite. However, there is no such restriction, any more than there is with possessive pronouns such as mia 'my', which also do not allow the article. Because of the unity of the two nouns linked by da, only the phrase can be modified by the article, so it must precede the first noun. See the fourth and fifth examples above.

Some Esperanto dictionaries substitute listo de and tuto de for listo da and tuto da. This is an error, an influence of Western languages which do not have an equivalent to da.

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Ewe

Noun

da

1. mother
2. snake

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Galician

Etymology

From contraction of preposition (deprecated template usage) de + feminine definite article (deprecated template usage) a

Contraction

da f (masculine do, masculine plural dos, feminine plural das)

1. of the; from the

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German

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old High German (deprecated template usage) dār

Pronunciation

• noicon

  (file)

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /daː/

Adverb

da

1. there, here
   • 1918, Elisabeth von Heyking, Aus dem Lande der Ostseeritter, in Zwei Erzählungen, Phillipp Reclam jun., page 78:

     Am liebsten entfloh sie dem allem in den großen Garten. Da verbrachte sie ihre schönsten Stunden.

     She liked best to escape from all of that into the big garden. There she spent her most pleasant hours.

2. then
3. so

Conjunction

da

1. since, as, given that, because
   • 1931, Arthur Schnitzler, Flucht in die Finsternis, S. Fischer Verlag, page 51:

     Und da er keinen Grund hatte, ihr seinen Namen zu verhehlen, so stellte er sich in aller Form vor.

     And because he had no reason to conceal his name from her, he introduced himself in all due form.

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Interlingua

Verb

da

1. present of dar
2. imperative of dar

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Italian

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) de + (deprecated template usage) a/(deprecated template usage) ab (preposition). In the meaning of “at, near, by” da probably comes from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) unde + (deprecated template usage) ad.

Preposition

da

1. from

   Giacomino da Verona — “Giacomino from Verona”

   interviste dal libro — “interviews from the book”

   traduzione dall’“Inferno” di Dante — “translation from Dante’s ‘Inferno’”

   Dalla Terra alla Luna — “From the Earth to the Moon”

2. At the house of,since

   da Giovanni — “at Giovanni’s house”

Usage notes

When followed by a definite article, (deprecated template usage) da is combined with the article to give the following combined forms:

da + article	Combined form
da + il	dal
da + lo	dallo
da + l'	dall'
da + i	dai
da + gli	dagli
da + la	dalla
da + le	dalle

See also

• dà

Etymology 2

Verb

da

1. Common misspelling of dà

Anagrams

• ad , AD

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Japanese

Syllable

da (romaji da)

1. The hiragana syllable だ (da) or the katakana syllable ダ (da) in Hepburn romanization.

Noun

1. だ: Hiragana syllable だ (da)
2. ダ: Katakana letter ダ (da)

Verb

1. だ: to be

See also

• desu (です)

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) dā

1. (deprecated template usage) second-person singular present active imperative of dō "give!"

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Lojban

Cmavo

1. (pro-sumti) someone/something which exists #1 (multiple occurrences of da in logically connected sentences refer to the same thing)

Related terms

• de
• di
• ko'a
• ko'e
• ko'i
• ko'o
• ko'u
• fo'a
• fo'e
• fo'i
• fo'o
• fo'u

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Mandarin

Romanization

1. 墰: an earthenware jar; a jug
2. 疶:
3. 繨: a knot (of a rope)
4. 跴: step on, tread on; search for
5. 蹽:

Romanization

da

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Nonstandard spelling of dā.
2. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Nonstandard spelling of dá.
3. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Nonstandard spelling of dǎ.
4. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Nonstandard spelling of dà.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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Manx

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Irish (deprecated template usage) do.

Preposition

da

1. to
2. for

Inflection

	Singular				Plural
Person	1st	2nd	3rd m.	3rd f.	1st	2nd	3rd
Normal	dou	dhyt	da	jee	dooin	diu	daue
Emphatic	dooys	dhyts	dasyn	jeeish	dooinyn	diuish	dauesyn

Pronoun

da

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) 3rd person singular of da

   to him/it

Derived terms

• dasyn (emphatic)

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Navajo

Adverb

da

1. (deprecated template usage) not

   doo yáʼátʼééh da — it is not good

Conjunction

da

1. including, as well as, and

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North Frisian

Article

da

1. the (plural)

See also

• di
• jü
• dåt

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Norwegian

Conjunction

da

1. when (past tense)
2. then
3. because

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Old English

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /dɑː/

Noun

dā ?

1. doe, female fallow deer

Declension

Declension of da

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	dā	dān
accusative	dān	dān
genitive	dān	dāna
dative	dān	dāum

Descendants

• English: doe

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Polish

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /da/

Verb

da

1. Third-person singular future indicative form of dać.

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Portuguese

Preposition

da

1. Contraction of de + a
   • Template:RQ:Harry Potter

     Ela estava sentada no parapeito da janela do quarto [...]

     She was sitting on the parapet of the window of the room [...]

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• noicon

  (file)

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /da/

Etymology 1

Most likely from a (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  language (e.g. Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Russian). Another (controversial) theory argues that it perhaps derived originally from the Latin (deprecated template usage) ita, one of several ways to say thus, so or yes, and that it was influenced by Slavic languages before reaching its present state. See also dacă.

Interjection

da

1. yes

Antonyms

• nu

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) dāre, present active infinitive of (deprecated template usage) dō. Compare Aromanian dau.

Verb

1. to give

Conjugation

    conjugation of da (first conjugation, no infix)

infinitive			a da
gerund			dând
past participle			dat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	dau	dai	dă	dăm	dați	dau
	imperfect	dădeam	dădeai	dădea	dădeam	dădeați	dădeau
	simple perfect	dădui	dăduși	dădu	dădurăm	dădurăți	dădură
	pluperfect	dădusem	dăduseși	dăduse	dăduserăm	dăduserăți	dăduseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să dau	să dai	să dea	să dăm	să dați	să dea
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		dă			dați
	negative		nu da			nu dați

Derived terms

• dare

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (before vowels) dad

Preposition

da

1. of, from
2. about

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Scottish Gaelic

Pronoun

da

1. Alternative form of dha.

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Template:proto, probably old imperative of the word (deprecated template usage) dȁti, itself from Template:proto.

Conjunction

1. that

   rekao je da će doći

   he said that he would come

   odgovorio sam mu da nemam pojma o čemu prića

   I've told him that I have no idea what he was talking about

2. in order to, to

   došao je da mi sve ispriča

   he came to tell me everything

   stigao je u našu zemlju da nauči naš jezik

   he arrived in our country in order to learn our language

3. to (when the subjects of both clauses are not the same)

   on hoće da mu pokažete put do stanice

   he wants you to show him the way to the station

4. (Serbian) to (when the subjects of both clauses are the same; for western Serbo-Croatian use infinitive instead of (deprecated template usage) da + present tense)

   on želi da priča s vama (Serbian)

   on želi pričati s vama (Croatian)

   he wants to talk with you

5. if

   da sam na vašem m(j)estu, ne bih se puno zamarao takvim detaljima

   if I were you, I wouldn't bother too much with such details

   da si više radio, zaradio bi više novca

   if you worked harder, you would have earned more money

6. (with (deprecated template usage) kȁo) as if, like

   s(j)ećam se, kao da je bilo juče(r)

   I remember, as if it were yesterday

   kao da ne znaš o čemu pričam

   as if you don't know what I'm talking about

7. ((deprecated template usage) a + (deprecated template usage) da + (deprecated template usage) ne) without (usually after negative verbs)

   ne mogu se uključiti u raspravu, a da ne napravim nered

   I cannot enter a discussion without making a mess

   odlazi, a da nije rekao ni zbogom

   he's leaving without even saying goodbye

8. ((deprecated template usage) a + (deprecated template usage) i + (deprecated template usage) da) even if

   a i da jesam to napravio, ne bi to učinilo neku razliku

   even if I did it, it wouldn't have made much of a difference

Particle

1. yes

   Je li tako? Da! — Is that so? Yes!

2. used when starting a question

   da li ste žedni? — are you thirsty?

   reci mi da li je to istina? — tell me if that is true?

3. in combination with other words, expressing wish, command etc.

   da se nisi usudio! — don't you dare!

   dȃ Bog! — may God grant it!

   da počnemo! — let's begin!

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Slovene

Interjection

da

1. yes

Antonyms

• ne

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Spanish

Verb

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of dar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of dar.
3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of dar.

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Turkish

Adverb

da

1. as well, too, also

o da sorunun cevabını biliyor - he/she/it also knows the answer of the question

Oğuzhan da bizimle geliyor - Oğuzhan is coming with us as well

Yağız da dondurma yemeyi sever - Yağız likes eating ice cream, too.

Usage notes

• It's used when the previous word's last vowel is "a", "ı", "o" or "u". Otherwise (if the word's last vowel is "e", "i", "ö" or "ü"); it becomes "de"

Synonyms

• de

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Uzbek

Particle

da (Cyrillic spelling да (da))

1. Locative case marker. It is used to show the time or the place of an action. Equates to "in", or "at" in English.
   • Samarqandda yashayman

     "I live in Samarqand."

   • Soat uchda boraman.

     "I go at 3 o'clock."

Usage notes

• When used after interrogative pronouns da can take on different meanings. Pronouns such as "kim" (who), "nima" (what), "qayer" (where), "necha" (how many, how much) become "kimda" (to whom), "nimada" (with what, by using what), "qayerda" (from where), "nechada" (what time).

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ja/

Noun

da

1. skin (of human, animal, and fruit), hide, leather, pelt

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Volapük

Preposition

da

1. through
2. throughout

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Welsh

Noun

da m

1. goodness
2. (deprecated template usage) goods, cattle

Adjective

da (feminine singular da, plural da, equative cystal, comparative gwell, superlative gorau)

1. good, well